| James Boswell - 1831 - 612 páginas
...Johnson, whose friendly partiality to the companion of his tour represents him as one, " whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation,...servant ; so we were attended only by my man, Joseph Hitter", a Bohemian, a fine stately fellow above six feet high, who had been over a great part of Europe,... | |
| James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 páginas
...Johnson, whose friendly partiality to the companion of his tour represents him as one, " whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation,...have passed '." Dr. Johnson thought it unnecessary to nut himself to the additional expense of bringing with him Francis Barber, his faithful black servant... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 604 páginas
...Johnson, whose friendly partiality to the companion of his tour represents him as one, " whose acuteness TVkV,E-ExDZR WKM O P Q V V R R W V QMTNB R \E-V[Q,W O:T;T G U V U U Hitter2, a Bohemian, a fine stately fellow above six feet high, who had been over a great part of Europe,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1835 - 592 páginas
...friendly partiality to the companion of his tour, represents him as one ' whose acuteness would help any inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation, and civility of manners, are sufficient to counteract the inconveniencies of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed.' " BOSWELL, ALEXANDER... | |
| James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 páginas
...Johnson, whose friendly partiality to the companion of his tour represents him as one, " whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation,...servant ; so we were attended only by my man, Joseph Ritter3, a Bohemian, a fine stately fellow above six feet high, who had been over a great part of Europe,... | |
| James Boswell - 1860 - 960 páginas
...Johnson, whose friendly partiality to the companion of his tour represents him as one, " whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation,...in countries less hospitable than we have passed." 8 From an erroneous apprehension of violence, Dr. Johnson bad provided a pair of pistols, some gunpowder,... | |
| 1874 - 382 páginas
...Johnson, whose friendly partiality to the friend of his tour represents him as one " whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation...in countries less hospitable than we have passed." It was arranged that Boswell should accompany the lexicographer throughout the northern journey ; and... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 páginas
...Scotland, induced to it, he says, " by finding in Mr. Boswell a companion whose acuteness would help any l well. ZC Nay, I will prove then that he speaks neither...declared how these two texts do agree, for they must " On the 18th of August we left Edinburgh," he says at the l>eginmng of the account of his Journey,... | |
| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 386 páginas
...writes : ' I was induced to undertake the journey by finding in Mr. Boswell a companion whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation...civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniencies of travel in countries less hospitable than we have passed.' In his letters to Mrs.... | |
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